LATEST ALERTSAugust 2019 marked a big turn in flavour policy in the US. We saw many states in late 2019 trying to pass a flavour ban by executive order in the wake of the EVALI crisis, in a hurry to tackle what was widely considered an epidemic of vape-related lung injuries. While these moves were in general not very successful, they established a trend leading to the passing of a couple of state bills in 2020, and even a governor’s budget incorporating a flavour ban.
This special report details the e-cigarette flavour bans or restrictions in place in four US states, and analyses those under consideration at state level elsewhere across the nation.
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Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Current state flavour bans/restrictions
- EVALI crisis – executive orders and follow-ups
- Recent attempts and failures – indirect consequences of EVALI
- Proposed state flavour bans
- Patterns
- Where are we going?
- Interaction with federal law
- Enforcement
